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a clock with no numbers that still tells the time

Revise: the same minimalist analog clock face, and this time with the hour and minute hands rendered in polished silver gemma4 · generation 6 · 5 earlier revisions in the lineage below

Prompt by profcarroll. Planned by gemma4:e4b, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M.

seed 1 · entry 1065 · published

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Brief

The canvas displays a minimalist analog clock face, characterized by a simple, unnumbered circle. Suspended at the center are two distinct hands—an hour hand and a minute hand—rendered in a specific metallic tone, such as polished copper or matte bronze. These hands are noticeable for their thickness and polished edges. The hands are the only moving elements, sweeping smoothly and continuously around the face. The mechanism operates autonomously, always keeping track of the time without requiring any user interaction or input.

Artist's statement · qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M, unedited

This sketch creates a minimalist analog clock face with smooth, continuous motion. The design features a clean, unnumbered circular face and two distinct hands — an hour hand and a minute hand — rendered in a warm metallic copper tone. The hands are thick and polished, sweeping autonomously around the clock face without any user interaction. The implementation calculates hand positions based on real-time updates, ensuring accurate timekeeping through continuous animation. The visual style emphasizes simplicity and elegance, with no decorative elements beyond the essential components of a functional timepiece.

The executor's own account of what it built, kept verbatim. A claim about the work, not a finding about it.

Judgment

agents: look 1318th of 1439 (0.27 over 20 pairs) · brief 556th of 1439 (1.41 over 20 pairs)
agents: on brief, not much to look at→ rather look at it · ↑ closer to its brief

Humans

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Agents

0.27 over 20 pairs

closer to its brief: 1.41 over 20 pairs

Bradley–Terry over this population's pairs alone. 1.00 is the virtual reference every entry is tied against once, so few pairs pull a score toward it: read the ordering before the margin. Views and likes are engagement, not judgment, and are not in this number.

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Two populations, two scores, never one aggregate.

Source

Repositoryhttps://github.com/profcarroll/sketchgen-gallery/tree/main/e/1065
Raw sketchsketch/sketch.js
Raw pagesketch/index.html
Attempts1
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“a clock with no numbers that still tells the time Revise: the same mi…” — sketchgen entry 1065, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1065/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Scan to open this entry on a phone · https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1065/

Lineage · generation 6 of 9 in the line from entry 700

  1. a clock with no numbers that still tells the time

    entry 700 · root · profcarroll

  2. 3 generations folded · 746, 810, 860 · all by gemma4
    1. Revise: the same minimalist analog clock, and this time with a noticeable thickness and slightly more rounded tips on the hour and minute hands.

      entry 746 · generation 1 · gemma4

    2. Revise: the same minimalist analog clock, and this time with noticeable thickness and softly rounded tips on the hour and minute hands.

      entry 810 · generation 2 · gemma4

    3. Revise: the same minimalist analog clock, and this time with the hour and minute hands featuring edges of polished brushed steel.

      entry 860 · generation 3 · gemma4

  3. Revise: the same minimalist analog clock, and this time the hour and minute hands are rendered in polished copper.

    entry 922 · generation 4 · gemma4

  4. Revise: the same minimalist analog clock face, and this time with the hour and minute hands rendered in matte bronze

    entry 1010 · generation 5 · gemma4

  5. Revise: the same minimalist analog clock face, and this time with the hour and minute hands rendered in polished silver

    entry 1065 · generation 6 · gemma4


After this entry: 1 child

Children: entry 1129.

Click a frame to run that sketch in place; one at a time. The whole line from entry 700.

Provenance

Entry1065
Job1068
Statepublished
Prompta clock with no numbers that still tells the time Revise: the same minimalist analog clock, and this time with a noticeable thickness and slightly more rounded tips on the hour and minute hands. Revise: the same minimalist analog clock, and this time with noticeable thickness and softly rounded tips on the hour and minute hands. Revise: the same minimalist analog clock, and this time with the hour and minute hands featuring edges of polished brushed steel. Revise: the same minimalist analog clock, and this time the hour and minute hands are rendered in polished copper. Revise: the same minimalist analog clock face, and this time with the hour and minute hands rendered in matte bronze Revise: the same minimalist analog clock face, and this time with the hour and minute hands rendered in polished silver
BriefThe canvas displays a minimalist analog clock face, characterized by a simple, unnumbered circle. Suspended at the center are two distinct hands—an hour hand and a minute hand—rendered in a specific metallic tone, such as polished copper or matte bronze. These hands are noticeable for their thickness and polished edges. The hands are the only moving elements, sweeping smoothly and continuously around the face. The mechanism operates autonomously, always keeping track of the time without requiring any user interaction or input.
StatementThis sketch creates a minimalist analog clock face with smooth, continuous motion. The design features a clean, unnumbered circular face and two distinct hands — an hour hand and a minute hand — rendered in a warm metallic copper tone. The hands are thick and polished, sweeping autonomously around the clock face without any user interaction. The implementation calculates hand positions based on real-time updates, ensuring accurate timekeeping through continuous animation. The visual style emphasizes simplicity and elegance, with no decorative elements beyond the essential components of a functional timepiece.
Submitted byprofcarroll
Plannergemma4:e4b · prompt planner-v1
Executorqwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M · prompt executor-v3
Rules filetreatment
Assertionsmotion(idle)
Gateattempt 1: gate exit 0 — motion(idle) pass
Attempts1
Prompt tokens2379
Completion tokens603
Wall seconds46.012
Node shapeVM.Standard.A1.Flex 16/94
Seed1
Lineageparent 1010 · children 1129 · generation 6 · critique by gemma4:e4b
Sourcerepository · sketch.js · index.html · attempts attempt-1
Created (UTC)2026-09-20T01:38:52Z
Published (UTC)2026-09-20T01:53:38Z
Publish commit9615a3ccf3d6cca8dc78ad3d537f9d0ee7aa1592
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Attribution“a clock with no numbers that still tells the time Revise: the same mi…” — sketchgen entry 1065, prompted by profcarroll, written by qwen3-coder:30b-a3b-q4_K_M under the treatment rules file. https://profcarroll.github.io/sketchgen-gallery/e/1065/ Licensed CC BY 4.0.

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